Viriforms—a new category of classifiable virus-derived genetic elements

HIGHLIGHTS

  • who: Jens H. Kuhn and Eugene V. Koonin from the Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD, USA have published the paper: Viriformsu2014A New Category of Classifiable Virus-Derived Genetic Elements, in the Journal: Biomolecules 2023, 13, 289. of /2023/

SUMMARY

    In 2021, Koonin et_al outlined a definition of the term "virus" and assigned all mobile genetic elements (MGEs) that fit that definition sensu stricto into the orthovirosphere, and virus-like MGEs that possess some but not all distinctive features of viruses into the perivirosphere. In parallel, this virus definition . . .

     

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